A year after the “Time’s Up” movement owned the Academy Awards, women continue to play a powerful role in the evolution of Hollywood and its most prestigious awards ceremony. From power hungry (“The Favourite,” “Vice”) to fiercely loyal (“If Beale Street Could Talk,” “A Star Is Born”), patient (“Green Book,” “Bohemian Rhapsody”), formidable (“Black Panther,”…

It probably won’t blow your mind to learn that the characters in Black Panther are objectively more complex than the ones in Mary Poppins. (More on both films in a moment.) But sometimes, artificial intelligence can spot things we otherwise might not. Here are five of our favorite insights StoryFit’s AI-driven software gleaned about this…

Hollywood extols the virtues of emotionally complicated characters, and this year, it’s certainly delivering them. A breakdown by StoryFit’s AI-driven software shows that, at both the 2017 and 2018 Academy Awards, the nominees for Best Picture featured characters who generally expressed only two emotions at high levels: joy and sadness. Other emotions like anger, disgust,…

As a small, independent book publisher, Amberjack Publishing has a similar goal as its larger counterparts: deliver great books to its target audience. With only a handful of staff members and a limited infrastructure, how does Amberjack stay competitive? They leverage AI to level the playing field. AI may be new to publishing, but it…

Artificial intelligence could perhaps be the biggest technological breakthrough since the internet. Computers programmed to mimic human cognitive functions will complement the human workforce and result in menial, time-consuming tasks being completed more efficiently with a smaller margin of error. Austin-based technology company, Authors, Inc. created StoryFit to bring AI directly to the publishing, movie,…